Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Reimagining Curriculum to Foster Engagement and Identity Over the years, fellows have noted how hard it has become to not only create engaging curriculum for students but also find ways to foster community and identity development in the classroom. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

3M and Discovery Education announced 31 State Merit Winners in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Games, like any other tool, should be put into place to support the learning of curriculum and the mastery of standards by our students. Griffin Middle School in Smyrna, Georgia. educational games, however, focus on game design and graphics first , or prioritize entertainment over content. What Not To Do.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Aspire is a flexible, self-paced digital solution that helps educators apply science-based strategies that accelerate literacy skills among students in grades 4-8 across disciplines and all levels of literacy competencies. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2015

All middle school students will use Discovery Education’s Math Techbook. Illinois’ Mundelein School District 75 and Discovery Education are launching a new partnership bringing Discovery Education’s new digital math textbook to all middle school students district-wide.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. Today, the organization is launching its first full (and free) math curriculum as a starting (and proving) point. She says out of about 70 middle school teachers in her district, close to 50 participated in the pilot.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Our third graders take state standardized tests, and our scores used to be pretty good,” explained Connie Hibbitts, Instructional Coach for all four elementary-middle schools in the county and an educator with 34 years of experience. After just a few months in, students’ hard work started paying off.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

When visitors step inside Lone Star Middle School, they notice a palpable enthusiasm for learning. Part of Nampa School District in Nampa, Idaho, the school fosters a remarkable culture of collaboration among educators and a dedication to powerful teaching and learning with technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

Families are asking for more flexible, real-world learning options, and schools are stepping up to meet that demand. What Teachers Need: Quality Curriculum and Career Awareness But theres still a gap. But schools cant do it alone. These numbers signal a clear trend: The shift from college for all to CTE for all is well underway.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

And to make life easier for teachers (and hopefully to obviate their need to search for online tools), the district’s curriculum and content specialists have used the summer to create remote lesson plans to guide teachers throughout the year, according to Gordy. So far, Gordy adds, there are about 30 apps that have passed muster.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

What are some effective strategies for integrating soft skills into curriculum and instruction? For example, our middle school program Career Explorations has embedded real-world, industry-specific soft skill exercises, including applied math, graphics literacy and reading comprehension.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2019

-based provider of digital K-12 curriculum and software, laid off about 20 employees on May 3. Most of the people affected were part of the company’s professional development team, which worked with educators to implement its supplemental curriculum offerings. This is the second round of layoffs for the company in as many years.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It may sound like another project-based curriculum, and in some ways it is. It’s not a completely canned curriculum either. That’s by design.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” Another comes from Jeff Silverman, principal of Christa McAuliffe Middle School, who explains that implementing personalized learning ”finally got us over the hurdle we were stuck at. partner with us.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. Middle school technologist Benjamin Lloyd knows his students are already using VR to watch movies and game at home. His goal is to help them to see the academic and creative potential while at school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Continuing my travels in Italy, I wondered how the pandemic affected the Italian nation’s educational systems? In a comprehensive article written for BMC Public Health Distance learning in Italian primary and middle school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey , the study revealed gaps in access. 2020, [link].

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In Oakland, CA, more than 60 students at James Madison Middle School gather to talk about money. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI. The conversation is robust.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. But, even with better curriculum, districts still give mandates to teachers. And the curriculum isn’t always good.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Aspire is a flexible, self-paced digital solution that helps educators apply science-based strategies that accelerate literacy skills among students in grades 4-8 across disciplines and all levels of literacy competencies. The IDA is raising awareness of the critical importance of teacher preparation in reading instruction, said Gaehde.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2021

It will fund professional development, hands-on STEM curriculum and afterschool programs to build students’ interest in fields like computer science. The district wants to prepare students for internships during high school, she says, and for careers including electric vehicles and robotics.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

But there's a lot of variation in how schools decide who’s ready for algebra, leading to fewer low-income students, rural students or English learners taking this course in middle school. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The idea behind my company, Legends of Learning , was that a unique approach to game based learning—short, simple edgames specially built and aligned to curriculum standards—would engage and teach students more effectively. Tama Nunnelly, a middle social studies teacher at Guntersville Middle School in Alabama, participated in the study. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2019

My first experience as an educator was teaching middle-school mathematics and science in Baltimore. Although more research needs to be done, these models and tools can be enormously useful to teachers, curriculum developers and education technology developers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. For Chrissy Romano-Arribito, the issues leading to demoralization were simple enough to name: testing and curriculum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2019

And when he’s not spending time with some of his favorites—StarCraft and Hearthstone—he’s teaching middle school students how to build their own. If educators want to teach using game-based learning, Isaacs thinks after-school programs are a good place to begin. Steve Isaacs has long identified as a gamer.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Both manufacturers and educators are leveraging the benefits of 3D printers in education. 3D modeling and printers can bring almost any educational concept to life, while building practical skills such as problem-solving, creative coding and design. Manufacturers Offer 3D Printing Curriculum Support. by Erika Gimbel.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. Curriculum can be compacted. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

Vadim wanted to create enough curriculum games so they would be effective daily learning tools in schools. We embarked on research that not only answered my question, but also provided the genesis of our education start-up Legends of Learning. This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Bass says there’s also a difference between adopting edtech and allowing individual teachers to use free tools they like (provided the tech meets curriculum and privacy standards). Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

In education, the mouthful term often evokes fear and frustration. For many schools and districts, it refers to a long, laborious process of finding and selecting technology, curriculum and other resources—oftentimes spending millions of dollars in the process.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. In my experience introducing the problem-based curriculum Imagine IM to teachers, professional learning is key to helping teachers make that shift.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. All middle schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) have officially begun to incorporate digital citizenship education into the curriculum.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The goal is to make Algebra I more accessible and engaging for underserved populations, which requires consciously designing curriculum and tools in ways that students identify with, and which reflect their lived experiences. As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school.

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